Carve is looking to hire a Junior Consultant to join our busy team. We’d love to hear from you, so please do send your CVs and applications to adelaide@carveconsulting.com. Please feel free to share this with anyone you feel would be interested.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

Overview:

You have extensive experience in social media and are actively participating in a wide variety of social media activities such as blogging, community development and management, social bookmarking, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other web 2.0 platforms. You enjoy providing bespoke, tailored and cutting edge social media strategy solutions to clients, overseeing projects and guiding implementation. You have razor sharp industry knowledge and are passionate about translating this to the benefit of your clients. Highly credible and confident, you feel comfortable about being the consultant-expert in a room of senior corporate managers. Most importantly you realise that effectiveness often stems from organisational change as much as creative and coherent thinking.

Description:

- Strategic development of client portfolio

1. Social media research (client audit and market analysis)

2. Participation in pitch/proposals writing

3. Pro-active new account management including admin and technical support

- Client account / project management

1. Strategy implementation (resources management, tools training, channels creation and content supervision)

2. Support in client training

3. Contribution to our monthly social media reports for clients

- Carve’s social media activity management

1. Participation in social media on behalf of Carve (including regular blogging)

2. Monitoring and engagement with Carve’s community

3. Knowledge sharing

Skills:

- Passionate about social media

- Up to date industry knowledge

- Exceptional traditional writing and grammatical skills and flair for using “social networking speak” and online jargon

- Excellent verbal communication skills with ability to present ideas and information clearly

- Attention to detail and outstanding organisation skills

- Self-motivated

- Team player

- Ability to work to tight deadlines and be calm under pressure

- Desire to expand skills fast

We were delighted to learn that Carve’s client BLT has been voted “Best Management Consultancy Recruitment Consultancy 2011″ by Top-Consultant subscribers.  With this being BLT’s third “Best Management Consultancy Recruitment Consultancy” award in a row, having won previously in 2009 and 2010, the recognition is particularly impressive.

Sarah Burgess and Don Leslie were also winners of the individual recruiter awards.

Congratulations to you all!

Paul Harrison recently spoke at Beament Leslie Thomas’ breakfast seminar about “Employer Reputation 2.0″. You can see key takeaways from this seminar here, as Paul discusses with BLT’s Don Leslie about how brands are being defined in the social space.

You can also view slides from the presentation here on Slideshare.

Carve Consulting’s Paul Harrison and Jon Fernandes from Beament Leslie Thomas illustrate the need for companies to embrace social media.

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Paul Harrison, Managing Partner of social media strategy house Carve Consulting keynoted at the SMART Recruiter conference in September 2010, presenting what it means to be a “Social Company” and what this means for employer brands and in house recruiters. This is the presentation looking at everything from Glassdoor.com and employer reviews, to Employee Advocacy and new pure-plays such as BranchOut for Facebook.

Great little film this,  put together by the  Career Player team, looking at “Careers 3.0″ (with a rare sighting of me wearing a suit near the end).

I would have loved to have this to hand at the recent KNOWHOW Graduates  skills event we organised with London Borough of Tower Hamlets.  What was really quite scary was how little the attendees (all recent graduates) knew about job seeking online  -  very very few had heard of LinkedIn, and none that I spoke to were aware of sites like WikiJob.

It begs the question - what the heck are university careers officers playing at? The answer, one supposes, is that careers offices are now (like everything else) ‘profit centres’ - meaning lots of sponsored emails from fee paying corporates to select students, very little grounding in the core online networking and brand building capabilities 21C Graduates will need to survive and thrive.

Paul Harrison, Managing Partner of Carve Consulting, will be speaking at the ONREC Kennedy Recruiting HR Summit on Wednesday, Nov 4: 9:30 AM - 10:15 AM in Concurrent 3.

Paul, one of just a handful of international speakers at the event and a regular participant in European Social Media conferences, is delighted to be able to present on the recently launched Google Social Search.

As part of his broader look at the characteristics and top 10 take aways of an effective corproate social networking strategy, Paul will take a specific look at the implications of social search, realtime search and user generated content on social recruiting.

We will update this page with the presentation, but in the interim, please find some background on Google Social Search, plus dynamic Google insights.